Sex toys used to be dirty little secrets. We meet the bedroom pioneers who are breaking old taboos with an array of exotic and playful alternatives

It began at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park, a land of expensive clothes
and terrible art, which almost seethes with the pointlessness of money. AHH
is blonde, sharp-nosed and beautiful, and is wrapped in cashmere. She looks
delicate and smooth, like a rich man’s wife, and she designs sex toys.

The sexual revolution is half a century old in Britain, but not everything has
changed. Mainstream pornography may be sadistic, but female masturbation is
still taboo. Even so, after years of cheap products that look like male
genitals but worse, sex toys have been monetised, which has the effect of
making them seem slightly less filthy, even if it poses the question — what
turns you on more: sex or money?

Now you can have both. These are nothing like the old toys, which were simply
fake genitals but uglier, if you can imagine such a thing. AHH, who